by Ishbel Holmes | Feb 5, 2015 | All Blog Posts, Turkey
Cities don’t impress me much. For me to say a city is magnificent, you can be sure it’s a special place and to added to your list of must see places. Istanbul is truly magnificent. The bonus being it’s easy to get cheap flights to Istanbul from... 
by Ishbel Holmes | Jan 26, 2015 | All Blog Posts, Turkey
Before I met Lucy she lived her life in fear. She was a street dog in Turkey. Some places take good care of their street dogs. Other places do not. In Lucy’s 5 or 6 years of life, she has suffered a broken hip, a fractured leg, a destroyed paw and has been shot. ... 
by Ishbel Holmes | Jan 24, 2015 | All Blog Posts, Turkey
I took Lucy to a Cat Pod in Calis, Turkey where stray cats are given shelter and food … this was the result … Lucy in the Dog... 
by Ishbel Holmes | Nov 16, 2014 | All Blog Posts, Turkey
Donate to Lucy’s Happy Ever After by Clicking Here On the 10th November 2014 at 8.15 am, I shared this post on World Bike Girl’s Facebook page. Please help me & Lucy by sharing this post. I found Lucy being attacked by 4 dogs at the same time. Lucy... 
by Ishbel Holmes | Nov 2, 2014 | All Blog Posts, Turkey
Selin Yesiltas is 8 years old and lives in Istanbul, a city of 14 million people. This one city in Istanbul has almost 3 times the number of people living in it than the whole of Scotland! Istanbul is such a unique and special city in the world because one side of... by Ishbel Holmes | Oct 30, 2014 | All Blog Posts, Turkey
I’ve arrived in Istanbul’s sea front suburb of Buyukcekmece where I am to meet my Warm Showers host for tonight. (www.warmshowers.org) I’m enjoying a rare treat of coffee in a cafe rather than my usual coffee in a bus shelter. A fierce headwind and...